Former LaPorte County official convicted of embezzlement, tax fraud, defrauding
NWI Times
September 17, 2015
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A federal jury has convicted a former LaPorte County chief deputy auditor for embezzling more than $150,000 from the LaPorte County government, tax fraud and defrauding her elderly father-in-law of at least $400,000, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mary Ray, 67, of LaPorte, was convicted of two counts each of theft of government monies and making false statements on a tax return, and with seven counts of wire fraud, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David A. Capp of the Northern District of Indiana announced Thursday.
Ray will be sentenced Dec. 22.
Evidence presented at the trial showed that, from September 2011 through December 2012, while she served as deputy chief auditor for LaPorte County, Ray embezzled more than $150,000 from county coffers.
She also underreported her income on her tax returns for those years by not reporting the embezzled funds. Evidence also showed she defrauded her 86-year-old father-in-law, a disabled veteran, out of at least $400,000 that he entrusted her to oversee.
She used the money she embezzled from LaPorte County and stole from her father-in-law to gamble at casinos, evidence showed, according to the Department of Justice.
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